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We Don’t Need a TV Show About the Confederacy Winning. In Many Ways, it Did.

HBO's “Confederate” assumes America is much further from its slaveholding past than it really is.

by Bree Newsome via Washington Post on August 2, 2017
Bree Newsome Reflects On Taking Down South Carolina's Confederate Flag Two Years Ago

"Removing the flag in South Carolina was one thing, but racism exists in South Carolina as policy and social practice."

by Bree Newsome, Lottie Joiner via Vox on June 27, 2017

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The Evolution of 'Racism'

A look at how the word, a surprisingly recent addition to the English lexicon, made its way into the dictionary.

by Ben Zimmer via The Atlantic on September 4, 2020

The Douglass Republic

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

by Jabari Asim via The New Republic on August 14, 2020

Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?

As museums formulate their approach to re-contextualization, they must also recognize their own histories of complicity.

by Elizabeth Merritt via American Alliance of Museums on April 3, 2018

A crowd celebrates the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house.

Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory

Black resistance to Lost Cause mythology has been a constant of the past 150 years.

by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders via Black Perspectives on October 16, 2017

Guardians of White Innocence

The Sons of Confederate Veterans want to convince Americans that Southern heritage isn’t about slavery. Is it a lost cause?

by Katy Waldman via Slate on September 25, 2017

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Archaeologists have uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion.

by Michael Cottman via NBC News on July 3, 2017

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